Transnet claims World Bank container port index contains ‘factual errors’

South Africa’s Transnet claims the World Bank’s 2023 Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) – in which South Africa’s ports rank dismally overall and the Port of Cape Town came in at the bottom of the 405 ports listed –  contains “factual errors” that it had no opportunity to contest or correct. In a statement, Transnet reports it has already met with World Bank representatives to raise its concerns about both the data, derived from Automatic Identification System and liner shipping data, and the methodology employed to compile the index.